December 4

Classic World of Darkness Events

• 1989
  • Dr. Charles Reid's class has begun studying the other Conventions of the Technocracy.^[1]

• 2003
  • WTOJ broadcasts an intercept from an unknown source. The message indicates that the freehold of Queen Karolinda is no more, and the queen herself is dead, victim of a massive ghille dhu, nearly twelve feet in height, which came to the author's lands sowing death and destruction in its wake. Green Man's Fever grips the citizenry, and many more have died. Before it left, the ghille dhu roared a message: "The last Gold Oath is broken, and the world is theirs at last!"^[2]

Trinity Universe Events

• 1998
  • Drs. Mazarin and Rashoud release their findings on the discovery of a unique gland found in the brains of novas. This Mazarin-Rashoud (M-R) node is believed to be the root of a nova's abilities. Novas officially dubbed subspecies Homo sapiens novus. The Triton Foundation provides funding for Mazarin and Rashoud's research, and much of the other nova research over the next decade. A nova's powers are theorized to derive from manipulation of the basic forces of the universe, also known as the quantum forces: gravity, electromagnetism, weak nuclear force and strong nuclear force. The M-R node allows the nova some degree of channelling and control over the quantum forces.^[3]

• 2002
  • A subway bombing in Tokyo brings attention to a hybrid of Shinto and Buddhist beliefs called Kamisama Buddhism. Although the sect professes belief in nonviolence, three fanatics are charged with the bombing. The sect's leader, nova guru Bodhisattva Masato, claims no knowledge of the attack.^[4]

• 2003
  • An article in the Weekly World News exclaims that lost Biblical passages reveal that JESUS WAS A NOVA!^[5]

• 2007
  • Dr. Susan Durant, chief of research at NewGen, Inc., is found in her home in Baltimore in a catatonic state. She later exhibits psychotic behavior, including extreme terror of medical personnel. Analysis suggests she was subjected to a fantasy where she was tortured and experimented on as a lab rabbit, like those used at NewGen. The episode is later attributed to Greenwar.^[6]

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